Server & Storage Engineering Lead — AI-Driven Multi-Cloud

Alvarez & Marsal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is seeking a Server & Storage Engineering leader with deep expertise in enterprise compute and storage platforms, legacy modernization, and infrastructure rationalization.

You will drive server consolidation, data tiering, and multi-cloud design across on-prem and cloud environments, applying AI-assisted analysis to optimize capacity and costs.

Travel up to 80% and working across mainframe, SPARC, Itanium, and x86 platforms as part of enterprise modernization programs.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of professional experience in enterprise server and storage engineering, with consulting or advisory delivery.
• Experience leading server consolidation or legacy platform migration programs at enterprise scale.
• Deep understanding of mainframe economics and modernization trade-offs (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire).
• Federal infrastructure experience preferred - regulated industries experience can substitute.
• Bachelor's degree and vendor certifications valued.
• Willingness to travel up to 80%.

Responsibilities

• Lead server and storage assessments with inventory analysis, utilization profiling, age/EOL mapping, and platform rationalization.
• Develop legacy platform retirement roadmaps (mainframe, SPARC, Itanium) with migration paths and risk mitigation.
• Analyze resource utilization patterns (CPU, memory, I/O, storage) to identify rightsizing and consolidation opportunities.
• Design target-state compute and storage architectures balancing cost, performance, availability, and security requirements.
• Assess workload placement options across on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud for compute and storage workloads.
• Integrate findings into A&M's broader engagement scope and deliverables.
• Support practice development through internal training, thought leadership, and people development.

Skills

Server architecture

Storage architecture

Multi-cloud design

AI-assisted analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

IBM

Dell/EMC

NetApp

VMware

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is seeking a Server & Storage Engineering leader with deep expertise in enterprise compute and storage platforms, legacy modernization, and infrastructure rationalization.

You will drive server consolidation, data tiering, and multi-cloud design across on-prem and cloud environments, applying AI-assisted analysis to optimize capacity and costs.

Travel up to 80% and working across mainframe, SPARC, Itanium, and x86 platforms as part of enterprise modernization programs.